Marijuana use may be legal in homes states of the Seattle Seahawks and Denver Broncos, but National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell has no intention of changing the NFL’s ban on use of cannabis. Goodell used his pre-Super Bowl state-of-the-league report to claim that anybody who thinks otherwise is blowing smoke. “This has been […]
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With the addition today of anti-marijuana billboards near the Super Bowl stadium where the Maryjane Hawks and Cannabis Broncs will play on Sunday, the NFL must be shaking its collective head. (Yesterday, billboards by a pro-marijuana legalization group also went up around the stadium.) “What about football!” NFL’s collective head has to be saying to […]
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By Seattlepi.com News Intern KJ Hiramoto Marijuana and mountains have become a weary mix for ski resorts in Colorado and soon in Washington as legal sales of recreational marijuana get going. Possession of up to an ounce is already legal for anyone over 21 years old. Ski resorts are worried that tourists visiting for legalized […]
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No matter who wins this Sunday — marijuana-friendly Denver or cannabis-savvy Seattle — the NFL and Super Bowl XLVIII will forever be tied to marijuana and its legalization. And just to up the ante, the pro-legalizaton group Marijuana Policy Project (MPP) has put up five pro-pot billboards around the New Jersey stadium where the game will be played arguing […]
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The very moment President Obama’s words about marijuana came out in the New Yorker, you just knew it would cause a round of high-fives in the pro-legalization crowd, finger-jabbing condemnation on the anti-pot side (and here) and then some crafty back-peddling from his staff. And all of that happened. In that NYer piece, he said marijuana […]
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These polls go with a separate story – click your back button or go back to the story through this link: Polls: Is marijuana more dangerous than masturbation? How about the war on drugs? These polls go with a separate story – click your back button or go back to the story through this link: Polls: Is marijuana more dangerous than […]
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New number crunching backs the assumption that marijuana tourism will be a strong economic boon to Colorado. And, when marijuana shops in Washington come online this spring sometime, we can expect pot tourism to become common place here, too. While anecdotal evidence has shown that tourists from far and wide were in Denver for […]
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A proposed state constitutional amendment legalizing medical marijuana has qualified for a place on Florida’s Nov. 4 ballot. The state has counted 710,508 valid voter signatures, passing the requirement of 683,149 by Feb. 1, the Tampa Tribune reported. Sponsors had submitted 1.1 million names, the product of a $4 million signature campaign. But Florida’s […]
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Nope. Or, at least, not as far as the Coast Guard is concerned. “It’s still illegal under federal law, and we handle it the same way as we always have,” said Mike Lutz, chief of Coast Guard’s District 13. “But a really important part to keep in mind when you think about marijuana, alcohol or […]
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Eric Holder says the Obama administration is planning to roll out regulations soon that would allow banks to do business with legal marijuana sellers. During an appearance Thursday at the University of Virginia, Holder said it is important from a law enforcement perspective to enable places that sell marijuana to […]
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